BARRIO ARTISTAS DE AZTLAN:
UNTITLED (MINORITY HISTORIES)
Date
1974
Location
Mott St. between East 1st and East 2nd streets.
Media Notes
Barrio Artistas de Aztlan (35 youth) were supervised by artists Judith Baca, Christina Schlesinger, Manuel Cruz, Sylvia Morales, Bernardo Saucedo, Joe "Pepe" Hernandez. 25' long.
Description
Once a 450-foot-long history of Chicanos, African- and Asian- Americans, less than 75 feet of the mural remain. The youth involved came from several different neighborhoods and gangs and considered the mural neutral territory. Out of this successful experience developed the concept for the Citywide Mural Project. At the time the mural was painted, the site was St. Anne's Home for the Aged, operated by Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of nuns established in France in 1840. The nuns reluctantly gave permission for murals to be painted on what was a graffiti-plagued retaining wall. In 1975 the building was condemned as not up to earthquake codes. It was replaced with a shopping center, called Plaza of the Sisters.
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